Do you have a favourite pause in music?

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

One minute 56.

 

[Peteinblack]

A nanosecond's pause @ 3.24, before launching into one of my favourite rock-out instrumental codas

 

[Machiavelli]

A nanosecond's pause @ 3.24, before launching into one of my favourite rock-out instrumental codas

That description has really put me off

 

[The Pilsbury Echo]

BONGO SONG, By Safri Duo...many many moons ago whilst in my cheesy quaver days when the pause came...I literally lost the plot and grinned ear 2 ear and when it kicked back in...it felt pure music heaven. 20 odd years later and whilst supping a pint in Durham I'm still grinning just writing about it.

 

[BrianB]

At about 1 minute in - heard on a powerful sound system it's like an electric shock...

 

[Machiavelli]

That description has really put me off

Jeez. It sounds worse than the description

 

[jcdenton08]

Gotta be a FBS song, nice pause before the drop. Nothing better when I was younger after a night in “imbibing” in a night club

 

[studio150]

Nerves - Bauhaus

The first forty seconds

 

[scooter1]

By no means a favourite, but it took me a couple of listens to get the beginning to Eye of the Tiger right, when I dep’d for a band many years ago

 

[maffew]

I've mentioned this one before in another thread - the little pause before the drop at 2:20...

Raise your Super Sharp Shooter pause, with Renegade Terrorist
30 seconds...

 

[Randy McNob]

I am the ressurection - Stone Roses

 

[Bodian]

Can we all now just post the same songs we posted in 2015? Or are there any new ones?

I am the ressurection - Stone Roses

Just beat me to it!!


John Cage 4:33 is one hell of a pause.

 

[Gwylan]

Mentioned this on another thread recently. The pause between the Count's "Contessa, perdono" and the Countess's "Più docile io sono" just gets me every time ... and it's particularly noticeable here.

 

[The Clown of Pevensey Bay]

“Pause” from Schubert’s Die Schöne Mullerin

 

[Fungus]

On a hot summer night, would you offer your
Throat to the wolf with the red roses?
Will he offer me his mouth?
Yes
Will he offer me his teeth?
Yes
Will he offer me his jaws?
Yes
Will he offer me his hunger?
Yes
Again, will he offer me his hunger?
Yes
And will he starve without me?
Yes
And does he love me?
Yes
Yes
On a hot summer night, would you offer your
Throat to the wolf with the red roses?
Yes


<PAUSE>


I bet you say that to all the boys...

Meatloaf, obvs.

 

[Somethingdean]

The pause 22 seconds into this masterpiece.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

4:31

 

[GT49er]

There was a Madonna single - don't know what it was called - where the entire sound was cut off, just sounded like the tape had been wiped for that second or so. It occurred several times in the three minutes, so wss obviously deliberate. Not a Madonna fan - but that single was a clever piece of work.

Edit: You lucky NSCers - I've found it!


Edit: OK, just at the start then - not how I remembered it! :

 

[Weststander]

Bernadette by the Four Tops. Levi Stubbs' voice always worth waiting for after the pause.

Astonishing vocals, so talented.

 

[METALMICKY]

At 0:20 and again at 3:08.

Metallica are the masters of that little ' hang ' or pause before continuing with a riff. Off the top of on head I particularly like Ride the Lightening.